Quote

Self-acquainta nce is a rare condition.

Robert Henri

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Robert Henri
Age: 64 †
Born: 1865
Born: June 24
Died: 1929
Died: July 12
Artist
Painter
Cincinnati
Ohio
Robert Earle Henri
Robert Henry Cozad
Robert Earl Henri
Henri
Robert Cozad Henri
Rare
Condition
Conditions
Self

More quotes by Robert Henri

Image
It is the common defect of modern art study. Too many students do not know why they draw.
Robert Henri
Image
Each sensation is precious, protect it, cherish it, keep it. Never give it away. You must develop that balance which allows all of the world to come in to you, and only that which you have expressed in your art to move back out again into the world.
Robert Henri
Image
When the artist is alive in any person, whatever his kind of work may be, he becomes an inventive, searching, daring, self-expressing creature.
Robert Henri
Image
What we need is more sense of the wonder of life and less of this business of making a picture.
Robert Henri
Image
The fun of living is that we have to make ourselves, after all.
Robert Henri
Image
If you work from memory, you are most likely to put in your real feeling.
Robert Henri
Image
It is harder to see than it is to express. The whole value of art rests in the artist's ability to see well into what is before him.
Robert Henri
Image
A mountain seen in the haze of distance must nevertheless look a solid heavy mountain.
Robert Henri
Image
Completion does not depend on material representation. The work is done when that special thing has been said.
Robert Henri
Image
A picture should be the expression of the will of the painter.
Robert Henri
Image
I have heard it very often said that an artist does not need intelligence, that his is the province of the soul
Robert Henri
Image
Do whatever you do intensely. The artist is the man who leaves the crowd and goes pioneering. With him there is an idea which is his life.
Robert Henri
Image
The man who has honesty, integrity, the love of inquiry, the desire to see beyond, is ready to appreciate good art.
Robert Henri
Image
Genius is not a possession of the limited few, but exists in some degree in everyone. Where there is natural growth, a full and free play of faculties, genius will manifest itself.
Robert Henri
Image
No work of Art is really ever finished. They only stop at good places.
Robert Henri
Image
Do not worry about your originality. You could not get rid of it even if you wanted to.
Robert Henri
Image
The good thing about painting from memory is that so much is forgotten.
Robert Henri
Image
The artist should be intoxicated with the idea of the thing he wants to express.
Robert Henri
Image
Your painting is the marking of your progression into nature, a sensation of something you see way beyond the two pretty colors over there. Don't stop to paint the material, but push on to give the spirit.
Robert Henri
Image
There are pictures that manifest education and there are pictures that manifest love.
Robert Henri